Federal Chancellor Kurz: The second wave has begun – Coronavirus Vienna

Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) is warning with drastic words against the spread of the crown pandemic in Austria. “What we are currently experiencing is the beginning of the second wave. The number of infections is increasing day by day,” the head of ÖVP said in a written statement to the APA. Addresses the “urgent appeal” to the population to adhere to the measures.

“Two weeks ago there were around 350 infections per day, yesterday we already exceeded 850. The development is particularly dramatic in Vienna, where around 50 percent of all new infections are recorded in Austria. And we will soon reach the 1,000 new mark. infections per day Day “, hopes the chancellor.

“I ask the population to comply with all measures, reduce social contacts, use oral and nasal protection and keep their distance as much as possible everywhere,” Kurz appealed. Overall, though, the head of government sticks to his assessment, expressed in late August, that light can be seen at the end of the tunnel, and that summer will be largely normal again next year. “But it will be a tough fall and winter for all of us. So now we are all called and challenged to overcome the challenges of the coming months together with the same discipline and consideration as in spring.”

SPÖ chief Pamela Rendi-Wagner has criticized Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) in light of the rise in corona infections. This has lost the advantage. The increase in the number of corona cases “is not surprising.”

“The federal government has long played the advantage we had in April,” Rendi-Wagner said. After Easter, the measures were relaxed without a plan and without accompanying measures. For example, according to Rendi-Wagner, the requirement for masks in supermarkets dropped “too early” and there was too little evidence. Preparations for the start of school and the tourist season have failed.

And the development of the “fundamentally sensitive crown traffic light” took three months and is still not working, criticized the head of SPÖ. The federal government is lagging behind the virus. Meanwhile, countries like Germany and even Italy have fewer new infections per 100,000 inhabitants than Austria.